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Parkway is a street in the London Borough of Camden. It runs roughly eastwards from Gloucester Gate near Regent's Park to a junction]] with Camden High Street in the centre of Camden Town. It meets or is crossed by a number of streets including Gloucester Avenue, Mornington Terrace, Delancey Street, Albert Street and Arlington Road. At the eastern end by Camden Town tube station Camden Road and Kentish Town Road run northwards. It is primarily a commercial street with bars, shops and restaurants.
In the eighteenth century, when the area was still largely rural, it was known as Slipshoe Lane. [1] During the Regency era major developments around Regents Park and Camden Town provided upmarket residential districts for the expanding capital. Parkway came to link these two areas. Some of the housing in the street dates from the early nineteenth century while others, including the pubs the Dublin Castle and the Spread Eagle, were built around the middle of the century. [2] At this time it was called Park Street and is marked on an 1834 map by this name. [3]
The main line into Euston, constructed in the 1830s, runs in a tunnel under the streets western end. At the other end of the road is Camden Town tube station on the Northern Line, which opened in 1907. Previously the nearest station for the street was Camden Road. The Alexandria Theatre was constructed in 1873 but burnt down in 18. The site went through various changes of use until a cinema was built during the mid-1930s by Gaumont, later becoming part of the Odeon chain. [4]
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Bibliography
- Bebbington, Gillian. London Street Names. Batsford, 1972.
- Cherry, Bridget & Pevsner, Nikolaus. London 3: North West. Yale University Press, 2002.
- Woodford, Peter (ed.) From Primrose Hill to Euston Road. Camden History Society, 1995.
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